Additional murder charge to be filed against father
Posted February 21, 2008 10:00 pm
DuPage County State's Attorney Joseph Birkett says he will seek an additional murder charge against a Glendale Heights man accused of setting his two sons on fire November 18th.
Seven-year-old Vishv Patel, who had been hospitalized in the burn unit of Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, died Tuesday. His brother, 4-year-old Om Patel died January 17th.
Birkett says in the next few weeks, he will ask a grand jury for an additional count of first-degree murder against the boys' father, Kaushik Patel. The 34-year-old man is accused of dousing the boys with gasoline in the shower of the family's home and then setting them on fire.
Birkett says it's too soon to decide whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty.
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